CHAPTER 40
That's not a good response. &Fun&Text&Novel{}. {lw} {xs520}. {}After all...... Having taken hostages - especially an important one like Li Yun, if she can't make good follow-up arrangements, then the final result may be even worse than just now, not only Shen Ruyu herself has to pay the price, but those civilians are probably not much better - but if it is handled properly, maybe she can do more than she imagined.
Thinking like this, Shen Ruyu tried her best to calm down, and then began to think.
Step 1...... At the very least, she had to make sure that the civilians behind her would not hold her back.
If they unite with her, maybe the situation will not be too bad, I am afraid that they will not have the courage and guts, and in the end they will drag down Shen Ruyu - civilians in these years, you can say that they are simple and docile, but the fact is that most civilians who can't recognize a word in their lives and haven't read a book once can sometimes be short-sighted and can make your heart jam to death, and if you don't deal with it well, you will be called the most pitiful pig teammate.
Thinking so, Shen Ruyu turned her head to look at the young man who had asked her for help before. In the seemingly Jedi situation just now, the girl who was dragged out was already desperate, but he still tried to ask for help, which at least shows that his survival* is much stronger than others, which is a good breakthrough. It's just that when her eyes fell on the young man, he was still hugging the girl, and he was looking at her blankly, his face was full of tears, as if he hadn't reacted to what was happening at all.
Shen Ruyu was actually amused by his expression in this situation, "Hey, little guy." β
Her smile seemed to wake up the other party, and the young man looked at her with wide eyes in confusion, "Yes, yes?" β
"Do you want to escape?"
The boy's expression at that moment answered the question perfectlyβof course he wanted to!
But soon, he looked at the soldiers who had surrounded them from afar, and looked depressed. "I, I think! But ......"
But Shen Ruyu didn't give him a chance to say the words behind "but", she looked sideways at the group of civilians in the back, "What about you?" β
Her personality was originally sullen, quite introverted in front of strangers, at this moment she asked her to incite them to resist with rhetoric, Shen Ruyu asked herself if she didn't have that ability and ability, she believed that "God only saves people who save themselves", if someone wants to escape, she doesn't need to say anything, she will also seize the opportunity, such as the teenager. But if you are afraid and afraid, she said that the sky is falling, even if you say that you move, what situation is encountered on the road, it is estimated that you will have to run down, and the loss will be greater, it is better not to come at the beginning, you know, the situation is dangerous, everyone who wants to escape must work their own, if you don't want to do anything, you want to climb people and hope to be taken out, and in the end it may kill everyone together.
At this time, she only said one sentence, "Now people are swords, I am fish and meat, I don't know if they will let you go if you stay, and I don't know if you can live if you go with me, but you can probably die...... Straightforward? β
None of the civilians dared to say anything, they seemed to be frightened by the scene in front of them. Shen Ruyu is not surprised, from ancient times to the present, no matter which world, the standard for civilians is the more docile the better, and when it comes to the life and death moment when they are really dragged out, these people are probably still full of luck in their hearts, feeling that maybe the next one is not themselves, feeling that they may be able to survive, and feeling that as long as they don't resist and look good, they will be let go.
And now, Shen Ruyu has come out, and I'm afraid many of them think it's great! This person has done this, but he is much stricter than us! Those soldiers will definitely deal with her first, and we may not die! We still stood here obediently and did not move, lest we could have survived, but we would have died if we were taken away by her.
As if to confirm their thoughts, Li Yun suddenly shouted at this time, "If you can take down Shen Ruyu!" This king spares you from death! And a big reward!! β
Shen Ruyu soon found that the eyes of many people in the crowd looking at her suddenly changed.
Even the young man she rescued was clutched by the girl beside him, lest he run towards Shen Ruyu and be included in the group of kidnappers. This made her sigh impatiently.
She didn't expect the civilians of this era to have a high level of ideological consciousness, and the reason why she sighed was precisely because she felt sad for them - although many people said that it was useless to read too much, but in such a comparison, Shen Ruyu felt that she should read more.
She didn't expect them to be full of gratitude to her, because she didn't have the certainty that they would be safe, and they were still in danger, but they had more than they could have survived with their lives. But for civilians, their thinking is not like this - to be killed here for nothing, there is no way to do it, they can only accept their fate. But things have taken a turn for the worse - you can't guarantee that you will get us out safely, and we will die in the end, why are you bothering us so much? What the? Maybe you have to risk your life for that little chance of escaping? Then since I will die in the end, I may be able to survive if I don't move here, why should I follow you to the adventure? Maybe I'm waiting for death here, but following you is looking for death.
Besides, be a good citizen, maybe beg the prince to let us go if he softens his heart, then if he goes with you, he will be a sinner who holds the prince hostage, and he will definitely die. We're not going to do it.
Shen Ruyu could see their thoughts from their numb faces.
But apart from sighing for them, she can't do more, Shen Ruyu is not a god, she is just an ordinary person.
From the beginning, she didn't hold Li Yun hostage with a compassionate savior mentality, and then she must send them away with enthusiasm. She just couldn't just watch them die in front of her, and she couldn't do anything, she couldn't do anything - while it was one thing to be able to do it, it was another thing to go and not to do it.
If the savior goes for the gratitude of the saved, then she is at best trying to satisfy her own vanity. The reason why Shen Ruyu made a move, was it to make them grateful to her? She only did it because she understood, "It's not right. β
How could it be right for soldiers to slaughter innocent and unarmed civilians? No matter what world, time and space, or era this happened in, it can never be correct. It is difficult for Shen Ruyu to explain clearly what justice is and what is unrighteousness, in her time, these two words seem to belong to the category of philosophy, which is difficult to explain, but this matter, no matter how you think about it, is absolutely "unrighteous".
If she watched such an "unrighteous" thing happen in front of her, but she didn't try to stop it, maybe no one would blame her, and who would blame her? She's a victim too, isn't she? But Shen Ruyu knew that her heart would blame her, she would know that if she just watched, just watched, she was not a victim, and she herself was one of the perpetrators and conniversers.
But she is not a saint either, if she were a saint, she might be willing to bow to Li Yun for the sake of the lives of those civilians - but Shen Ruyu is not.
The premise of cherishing others is always to cherish yourself first.
Your life is life, my life is life, I want to live, so I try to find a way, you want to live, but you want to count on me to sacrifice myself? Why are we not related to each other? It's better to fight together if you want to live to see if you can live, and if you don't want to live, you can wait there to die, and it has nothing to do with me.
So she followed her heart and did what she wanted to do - she stopped Li Yun, and even if all these civilians still died at the hands of the soldiers in the end, then she had a clear conscience - because she had done the best she could.
You know, sometimes, even if you put your hand into the abyss and try to pull the people who fell into it, if those people refuse to reach out, there is nothing you can do.
However, Li Yun probably felt that Shen Ruyu didn't look like a violent person, so after panicking for a while at the beginning, she dared to speak out to encourage civilians now, obviously because she was sure that Shen Ruyu would not do anything to her, and that she must be punished as much as possible for challenging her majesty as a kidnapper, otherwise even if Shen Ruyu has hostages in her hands, she will lose her deterrence.
Just when Shen Ruyu had no experience to consider whether to cut off one of Li Yun's fingers or something, the young man suddenly broke away and rushed up to the girl who was still holding him, he roughly pulled a hairpin from Li Yun's hair, and unceremoniously cut a long scar on her face with the sharp end.
Li Yun suddenly let out a miserable scream, struggling violently, Shen Ruyu almost didn't control her, she looked at the young man in surprise, and found that after the ruthlessness at the beginning passed, he held the hairpin that was still dripping with blood, his face was pale, and his whole body was trembling slightly, but despite this, he still tried to stay calm, and shouted fiercely at Li Yun, "Shut up!" β
He's a talent.
Shen Ruyu looked at him in amazement.
After witnessing this scene, the soldiers who had been quietly and slowly surrounding them immediately stopped.
Before leaning towards Shen Ruyu, the young man turned his head and roared at the girl who was still stupidly paralyzed on the ground, "Sister! Come here! β
The girl looked at him with a pale face for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and got up, and staggered over.
Probably remembering what Li Yun said before, the young man was afraid that Shen Ruyu would be uneasy about their approach, so he consciously grabbed his sister and stopped at the range of Shen Ruyu's long sword, and his hairpin couldn't hurt her distance at all, and even took the initiative to stand in front of Shen Ruyu, which was regarded as using his body as a human shield for her.
Shen Ruyu couldn't help but become more and more interested in him. But she glanced at him a few more times, it was still important to get down to business, she tightened the long sword on Li Yun's neck, and the prince, who had always been pampered, was half blooded at this time, and he was still crying.
"Shen Ruyu! Ben Wang ...... Woowoowoo...... This king won't let it go, woo woo woo...... Belch...... Leave you alone! β
Because she cried so sadly, she hiccups several times.
Shen Ruyu: "......"
"We're kidnapping," she said to Li Yun helplessly, "Are you a little strict?" β
Li Yun hiccuped and suddenly hit more urgently.